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December 4, 2012
I AM Going To Promote You and Bring You Up Higher In Me!By Becky Porter
You have come full circle around the mountain of testing,
and though the journey has been very difficult, you have learned your lessons
well, and I AM WELL pleased! I AM going to promote you and bring you up
higher in Me – great is your reward! You have earned it My precious and
beloved one – you have earned it!
As you have learned these lessons, I have imparted a wisdom
and knowledge you did not formerly possess, and I have given you an overcomer’s
anointing. I will use you to set the captives free – lift up your voice
and let My Words pour through you with a resounding crescendo that will echo to
the far corners of the land! Lift up your heads, oh you gates and be
lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in!
Psalm 24:7 NIV
Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you
ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
Psalm 29:9 NIV
The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks and strips the
forests bare. In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”
Isaiah 60:1-3 NKJV
Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory
of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness
shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise
over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall
come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 61:1 NKJV
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has
anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to those who are bound.
The following excerpt is taken from Barnes’ Notes on the
Bible, (referring to Psalm 24:7):
Lift up your heads, O ye gates - Either the gates of the
city, or of the house erected for the worship of God; most probably, as has
been remarked, the former. This may be supposed to have been uttered as the
procession approached the city where the ark was to abide, as a summons to
admit the King of glory to a permanent residence there. It would seem not
improbable that the gates of the city were originally made in the form of a
portcullis.
I looked up the meaning of the word portcullis:
A portcullis (from the French porte
coulissante or gliding door) is a latticed grille made of wood, metal or
a combination of the two. Portcullises fortified the entrances to many medieval
castles, acting as a last line of defense during time of attack or siege. Each
portcullis was mounted in vertical grooves in castle walls and could be raised
or lowered quickly by means of chains or ropes attached to an internal winch.
The gates of the old castles in the feudal ages were, not
to "open," but to be "lifted up" by weights and pullies. In
some of the old ruins of castles in Palestine there are still to be seen deep
grooves in the "posts" of the gateway, showing that the door did not
open and shut, but that it was drawn up or let down. There were some advantages
in this, as they could be suddenly "let down" on an enemy about to
enter, when it would be difficult to close them if they were made to open as
doors and gates are commonly made. Thus understood, the "heads" of
the gates would be the top, perhaps ornamented in some such way as to suggest
the idea of a "head," and the command was that these should be
elevated to admit the ark of God to pass.
End of excerpt from Barnes Notes on the Bible
Becky Porter
lovetoencourage@yahoo.com
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